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The recent large moves in the US dollar have brought the idea of currency hedging to investor attention. Currency hedging is often ignored when discussing international equity investments but this ...

Hedging is a technique used to reduce or fully mitigate a risk exposure. Hedging is a commonplace practice in business, finance, investment management, and even everyday life. In a financial setting, ...

Amid recent volatility, many firms are now choosing to outsource their currency hedging to reduce the operational burden, however there are many different strategies that managers can choose to manage ...

When it comes to currency hedging, every local authority pension fund has a different story to tell. While many have left currency risk unhedged, some have hedged currency risk in the past – and the ...

Reviewed by Thomas Brock Fact checked by Suzanne Kvilhaug Investors often include foreign or international bonds in their portfolios for a few primary reasons – to take advantage of higher interest ...

Some investment professionals encourage using foreign stocks and bonds to diversify portfolios. Since overseas assets often don't track their U.S. counterparts closely, a globally diversified ...

For years, financial institutions, payment providers and treasury platforms have treated foreign exchange risk management and operational functions as independent domains. Businesses process payments ...

This article appears courtesy of Global Investor. Here’s an opportunity for European pension funds : they, and other foreign investors, can now delegate responsibility for hedging currency exposure to ...

(Bloomberg) -- Hedge funds are ramping up bearish positions against currencies from the yuan to the Mexican peso to speculate that Donald Trump will win the US presidential election next month. Dollar ...

While the US dollar was continually getting stronger and sterling was continually getting weaker, British investors rarely needed to worry too much about currency movements. If you held an ...